I would like to inform all of you that I decided to significantly reduce my activity in the Axis2 project. Over the last months I have worked primarily on JIRA issues and on improving the test suites of SAAJ and ADB [1]. This work has put me in the line of fire of people who are not willing or not able to let a discussion occur in a constructive way. Considering that I dedicate some of my free time to do this and that my professional life is already stressful enough, I can live very well without this. Doing the dirty job of fixing bugs is simply not worth it under these conditions.
The fact is that in AXIS2-4465, I have implemented a fix that inadvertently removed a public method and causing a subtle issue in a dependent project. I have been immediately accused of drastic and deliberate changes to public APIs and these accusations went as far as talking about "merrily chang[ing] APIs" and "things are going to become a big mess". In addition these accusations have been put forward while being vague on the exact issue that the fix caused (the complete information about this was only disclosed in the 35th post in this thread). This caused the discussion to quickly degrade instead of remaining focused on the facts and drawing the conclusions after analyzing those facts. Furthermore, in another thread, my fix in AXIS2-4465 has been implicitly put on a level with a proposed modification that would change the deployment subsystem, dispatchers and transports. I think that all this goes way beyond legitimate criticism and also way beyond what one would expect in a constructive discussion. Note that I am not resigning from the Axis2 project; I will just shift priorities. Andreas [1] http://svnsearch.org/svnsearch/repos/ASF/search?path=%2Fwebservices%2Faxis2%2Ftrunk%2Fjava&author=veithen
